William B. Belin

WILLIAM BEAUFORT BELIN was born on Oct. 15, 1942, in Pamplico, SC, to Beaufort and Leola Belin. He died peacefully in his sleep at Keswick Multi-Care Center in Baltimore, MD, on Monday, January 20, 2014, after a long illness. He was seventy-one. The Belin family had moved from South Carolina to Baltimore where William, who was fondly called “Son” or “W.B.,” graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 1961 and completed some collegiate studies at Morgan State College. A funny, happy-go-lucky person, Son completed his education and then joined the United States Army. After serving nearly three years in Vietnam, he received an Honorable Discharge. Back home, Son was employed by Kavanaugh’s Men’s Store for many years. He took pride in the window dressings that he was responsible for at the store’s locations on Fayette Street and in Reisterstown Plaza. In time, however, his desire to help people who were hurting prompted him to pursue a career as a nurse technician. Debilitating seizures in 2001, however, forced him to retire from his medical profession. Son was married briefly to Deborah Belin in the 1960s. One daughter, Dasheena Belin, was born of that union. Son later married longtime friend Delores Greene on Valentine’s Day in 1998. Throughout the fifteen years of their marriage, they traveled as often as possible and enjoyed many fun-filled and memorable moments together. He was known to say that any man could marry a woman, but that he had both a very special woman and a lady in whom he took great pride. Son especially loved family gatherings and attended them when his health permitted. Son leaves to mourn: his loving and devoted wife, Delores Belin; daughters, Dasheena Belin and her son and daughter (names unavailable), Linda Greene, Claire Matthews Baker (husband Theodore), Kathalene Greene Cason (husband Israel); sons, Andre Greene (wife Carole), George (fiancée Devera Ross) and Neil Campbell; grandchildren, Tiffany Amos (husband Andrew), Katrina Matthews, Shawn and Konika Lewis, Xanthe and Ashley Key, Cierra, Montrel, Shaneá, Sakiyah, Sa’keria, Brandon and Keon Campbell and Kiyah Stafford; great-grandchildren, Markel Steele, Deshante Lewis, Zada Hall, Patrick and Jordan Greene, Kaleb Jenson and Christian and Lauryn Amos; father, Beaufort Belin Sr. (wife Annette); sister, Hattie Hightower; brothers, Duke and Jeremy Belin; nephew, Dr. Anthony Hightower (wife Tara) of Sierra Vista, AZ; great-nieces, Dendera and Seqqurah and great- nephew, Sekhem Hightower; brother-in-law, Earl T. Greene; sisters-in-law, Gladys Braxton, Jacquelyn Campbell and Mary Stephens; uncles, Charles Belin and Benjamin Cupid; and a host of other relatives and friends.

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William B. Belin

October 15, 1942 - January 20, 2014